Masseria Cervarolo • I Borghi d'Italia

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Masseria Cervarolo Ostuni. Masseria Cervarolo is a farmhouse with trulli, raised in the sixteenth century, on a hill of 250 meters. overlooking a vast and fertile plain at 6 km from Ostuni.

Like many Apulian farms, the factory buildings were born and changed over the centuries according to the cultivation and production practices. The toponym ‘Cervarolo’ originates from the presence of deer on the last reaches of the Murgia when they were covered by dense wooded areas.

Attached to the farm, dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows (1798), there is a small church with a splendid polychromatic Baroque altar and numerous frescoes. The church was a very important place of worship and this is evidenced by the discovery of numerous votive offerings. At Masseria Cervarolo legends are linked that have made it a place of pilgrimage for those who are looking for serenity. It is also said that, in the area of the farm, spring arrives a few weeks in advance and that the farmers of the surroundings regulate agricultural activities by virtue of this “phenomenon”.

The restoration work, which lasted more than five years, was carried out in absolute respect of the original architecture using materials recovered from the farm itself: chianche, chiancarelle, limestone blocks, etc.

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